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84 Chapter 6– Production Printing
Imposition
Imposition is the process of positioning page images on a virtual
sheet of paper so that when a printer or digital printing press prints
the sheet, the page images will be in the right order. It is part of the
process of producing finished documents.
In addition to page images, you can add various marks to the
sheets to aid the production process. These marks show where the
paper should be folded or trimmed.
Imposition does not affect the content of the individual page but
rather affects only the placement of the page images on a press
sheet. Imposition is a combination of content and layout. The
content is the pages that should be printed, and the layout is the
location of the page on the sheet, along with the page’s printing
marks, crop marks and fold marks.
Imposition Workflows
The two examples in this section are typical imposition workflows.
The first example shows you how to print business cards, and the
second example shows you how to print a brochure.
Printing Business Cards
This example demonstrates how to use the repeat-image
imposition method to print business cards. With the repeat-image
method, you can print multiple copies of the same image on one
large sheet.
In this example, the job contains business cards that are 50 mm ×
90 mm (2 in. × 4 in.), imposed on A3 paper.
1.
Click the
suspend
button to temporarily stop the
Process Queue
.
2.
Click
Import
to open the Import window.
3.
Import your business card file.
The file is imported to the
Process Queue
with a
Waiting
status.
4.
Double-click the business card file in the
Process Queue
.
The job parameters window appears.